I've been wanting to make a blog entry about that word and how our own "conservatives" aren't really conservatives.

Yeah, there's fear and loathing of the modern world here, and that leads to envy: a whole lot of people don't feel like they fit in today's reality, so they long for the past--and would have the rest of us go back with them. Part of that is a religious-based fear, that the world will only get worse until the worst comes in the form of Antichrist. (They're more Manichaean than Christian in that regard.)

I'm afraid we really are a "center-right" nation, with the Democrats dominating nationwide because the party has both a right and left wing, while the Republicans are our own Spanish Fifth Column.

by LudwigVan on 11/07/2009 08:06:00 PM EST

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